I purchased two new books today both by Jan Karon. One is titled A Continual Feast.....Words of comfort and celebration, collected by Father Tim. The other one is titled Patches of Godlight...Father Tim's Favorite Quotes. I have selected this for reading this evening. In Jan Karon's bestselling Mitford Years series, Father Tim Kavanaugh is more than the local rector. He's a friend and counselor to nearly everyone in the village. For his comfort he turns to favorite books. When a particular passage strikes him, he jots it down in this "quote book." It is filled with the wisdom of poets, humorists, clerics, and philosophers such as St Paul and C. S. Lewis. These are words that speak to the heart, and thinking that opens the windows of the soul. It's a small book and handwritten.
A favorite quote of Father Tim's by Winston Churchill....
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate..peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them be your acquaintances.
I continue to read....
